The meaning of Famished

Famished – definition

adjective
Extremely hungry.
Usage examples:
I'm famished—is there anything to eat?
Synonims:
Very hungry Ravenous Starving Starving to death Starved Dying of hunger Faint from lack of food Deprived of food Empty Undernourished Malnourished Half-starved Unfed Peckish Sharp-set Esurien

verb
Reduce (someone) to extreme hunger.
Usage examples:
They had famished the city into surrender

adjective
Very hungry
Usage examples:
I’m famished! when do we eat?

Famished translation into English

Famished: translate from English into Chinese

饿了, 吨, 馁, 惄

Famished: translate from English into Dutch

Uitgehongerd, Hongerig

Famished: translate from English into French

Affamé

Famished: translate from English into German

Ausgehungert, Verhungert

Famished: translate from English into Hindi

भूखा, भूखों मरना

Famished: translate from English into Italian

Affamato, Morire di fame, Far morire di fame

Famished: translate from English into Korean

굶주린

Famished: translate from English into Russian

Голодный, Изголодавшийся

Famished: translate from English into Spanish

Famélico

Word origin

Middle English: from obsolete fame ‘starve, famish’, from Old French afamer, based on Latin fames ‘hunger’.

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Famished – similar words

famishing

verb
Reduce (someone) to extreme hunger.
Usage examples:
They had famished the city into surrender

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famishes

verb
Reduce (someone) to extreme hunger.
Usage examples:
They had famished the city into surrender

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famish

verb
Reduce (someone) to extreme hunger.
Usage examples:
They had famished the city into surrender

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Famished synonims

empty

adjective
Containing nothing; not filled or occupied.
Usage examples:
She put down her empty cup

verb
Remove all the contents of (a container).
Usage examples:
We empty the till at closing time

noun
A bottle or glass left empty of its contents.
Usage examples:
The barman collected the empties

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half-starved

phrase
Dangerously thin
Usage examples:
The horse was found half-starved and suffering from neglect., the men were half-starved and clothed…

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malnourished

adjective
Suffering from malnutrition.

adjective
Weak and in bad health because of a lack of food or a lack of food that is good for you
Usage examples:
By the time we saw the child, she was extremely malnourished.

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peckish

adjective
Hungry.
Usage examples:
I hadn't eaten and was quite peckish

adjective
Slightly hungry
Usage examples:
By ten o'clock i was feeling peckish, even though i'd had a large breakfast.

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ravenous

adjective
Extremely hungry.
Usage examples:
I'd been out all day and was ravenous

adjective
Extremely hungry
Usage examples:
We were ravenous after hiking all day.

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starved

verb
Suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger.
Usage examples:
She left her animals to starve

adjective
Very hungry
Usage examples:
The horse was found half-starved and suffering from neglect., people who are starved of sleep start…

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starving

adjective
Suffering or dying from hunger.
Usage examples:
The world's starving children

verb
Suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger.
Usage examples:
She left her animals to starve

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undernourished

adjective
Having insufficient food or other substances for good health and condition.
Usage examples:
Undernourished children

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unfed

adjective
Not having been fed.
Usage examples:
Apparently, in the latter study the difference in the rapidity with which fed and unfed chicks star…

adjective
Not having been given food to eat
Usage examples:
There are claims that elderly patients are routinely left unfed and lying in filthy sheets., the un…

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